UBC trying to help about 280 Saudi Arabian students get information, says president

The University of British Columbia is doing everything it can to support Saudi Arabian students ordered to leave over a dispute between Canada and Saudi Arabia, says UBC president Santa Ono.
In a statement Wednesday, Ono said UBC has about 280 new and returning students with Saudi Arabian citizenship in English-language, undergraduate, postgraduate, and graduate programs. Of that number, about 80 per cent are sponsored by the Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau.
“Understandably, many of our stud